Basics

The ordering of /etc/fstab is

1. disk
2. mount point
3. filesystem type
4. options
5. dump
6. pass

Example:

1UUID=877f14e8-4738-46b0-884f-ba330dad1a7d       /mnt/biggie                     ext4        nofail,rw,relatime      0 2
2
3UUID=B21648C416488AF5 /mnt/share ntfs       nofail,rw,nosuid,nodev,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

5: Dump

Ignore this obsolete option.

6: Pass

Options

• nofail means the computer will not fail to boot, even if the drive fails, or is unplugged. It's a good option for everything except /.
• noauto means 'don't mount on boot' (but you can still mount with mount -a).